Love the trees!

I'm just finishing ironing, clipping ears and separating papers. My daughter and I combined our HST's from both exchanges and made a few more from our own fabrics. We are working together when we can in the evenings and on weekends. Life's necessities, work & chores, get in the way of our fun regularly! We're looking at Edyta's pattern "Constellation" as a possibility for our first quilt now. We changed our minds from an earlier pattern choice that we liked because of the variety of HST's and the difficulty unifying them. We'll have enough HST's left and plan to make a tree quilt too. Then we'll both have a quilt to remember SOTTS & Batiks R US!

Next week, we are going to make 196 neutral background squares for the Constellation quilt, but it should be a snap with our new Accuquilt Go Cutter! Then the sewing and construction begins! Hope you all are having as much fun as we are! I promise to post pictures as soon as I get a few blocks completed!

Lois:
love those trees - the more i see these trees - the more i like them
have fun with alex' class - am quite jealous wonder if she'll stray over into my neck of the woods for a class or two now that i wouldn't miss for the world

I do like the trees a lot, I might have to do something with those too...after...

Lois --I really like the trees you have made and look forward to seeing the applique. How lucky you are to get to take a class from Alex. I am hoping she will teach somewhere close to me someday. I would love to take a class from her.

I'm lovin' these trees! Can't wait to see what the appliqué does for them!!

Hello Everyone, All of you have inspired me to get busy. I finished 8 blocks for the Tree of Life wall hanging. I will sew the top together tonight or tomorrow. Then I will be ready to do the applique. I am so excited about doing that. You see Alex Anderson is coming to our area and is teaching a class on machine applique this Tuesday. I can't believe she is coming here. I live in a little town 6,000 people in central PA. Our local Bernina Dealer is sponsoring the class. We live 50 miles from the nearest airport and the Bernina Dealership is owned by a Mennonite Family and the store is way out of town and it is built right on their farm. I will try to take pictures for you. Now I have to figure out how to ad the picture of my blocks to this message. Debbie, I did just what you did and picked them out as they came out of the box in which I stored them. I used a variety of dark green and purple prints and batiks for the single triangles along the side of each tree. Lois Bruno

i think - no, i know - i like it too
have fun - and hope your sewing machine is soon back where it belongs

I have been playing with the HSTs this weekend and have most of them pressed and about half have the papers removed and bunny ears clipped off. I plan to make the Tree of Life Quilt from Edyta's Friendship Triangle book. This is my first block. It is not sewn as I don't have a sewing machine at the moment (yearly checkup time). I made it completely scrappy--used whichever hst I picked out of the bin. I do have different browns for the tree trunks but will use the same fabric in all the blocks for the background. I think I like it.

Annis,

I love all of your tips! I am now trimming all of SOTTT HSTs, because I did not do that before I cut the batik HSTs down by 1/4, and they are not lining up very well, due to the different sizes! And, I don't know why I didn't think of taking the HSTs apart if there are two lights together and two mediums together, and just swap them to have two new HSTs with a light and medium. Makes so-o-o much sense! I'm not knocking those people who didn't have a high contrast, because I am sometimes guilty of focusing on color, and not paying enough attention to value. Looking forward to seeing your completed "Split Rail!"

Dawn,
In beautiful Northwest Montana

GuysQuilt2. It is beautiful. Love it. Lois B

I like how you have put the one with the darker value in the center! Looks great!

OK--just wanted to be sure of what I was seeing.

No, these are full size trimmed slightly to make them all even. I may cut the triangles from the batik exchange in half.

Annis, are these the ones you cut in half?